Summary The Brides Stripped Bare, when you first encounter the title, is quite misleading. You tend to think of some artsy visual/concrete poetry type of presentation the "poetry" with nude images. That is not what this piece is about. This piece surrounds UbuWeb and gives a brief background of its origins and moves onto its most popular section, MP3 file sharing collective. The UbuWeb was created as an online archive for collection of out-of-print and hard to find concrete, avant-garde, and sound poetry. Over the years the collection grew so large and varied that they eventually dropped the prefix of poetry from their from their name because they didn't want limitations.
The sound section of the UbuWeb quickly became its most popular section. With the advent of MP3s and the ability to share those types of files via the web, people who were interested in the avant-garde sound movement were granted to easier access to the materials. UbuWeb also allows the user to download the sounds onto their computers and use them as 'source material' to manipulate, combine, and remix to create new compositions - Goldsmith termed the process of combining different sound pieces bootlegging or smushing. The way that the sound files are distributed is given the term nude media by the author. He writes:
What I mean by this is that once, say, an MP3 file is downloaded from thecontext of a site such as UbuWeb, it’s free or naked, stripped bare of thenormative external signifiers that tend to give as much meaning to an artworkas the contents of the artwork itself. Unadorned with branding or scholarlyliner notes, emanating from no authoritative source, these objectsare nude, not clothed.
When the sound files are uploaded and then downloaded on this peer-to-peer file sharing system they are, in essence, naked because they no longer hold any allegiance of branding or the authority of its original intent.
Commentary
Goldsmith "The Bride Stripped Bare: Nude Media and the Dematerialization of Tony Curtis" introduces a number of new concepts and terms. From the onset of Netscape , Goldsmith in essence was hooked; "The first image I saw appear on the screen was a slowly unfurling interlaced gif"(2). Thus, explaining the birth of UbuWeb. The inception of UbuWeb played on the role of the computer when incorporating sound and concrete poetry in the Web environment.
Goldsmith says: The interface design of UbuWeb is intentionally modeled toemphasized these same flat,cool, and minimal qualities. Illusionisticdepth-of-space, three-dimensional modeling, and decoration of any sortis avoided. UbuWeb's form is meant to fit its function......UbuWeb isbecoming a clearinghouse for the avant-garde, something the Web sorely needs(3).
The article ultimately returns to a realization that in this process UbuWeb is simply another source (like many today) that possibly has little to no distinction from others like it. In a defeated conclusion the author makes mention that the infinity of the web may continue to strip bare the history of sound.
Questions 1. "Nude media" is a term Goldsmith introduces meaning "downloading strips bare" certain historical elements of the soundtrack the more it is exchanged. With the popularity of the Web how can historical properties remain with the work as it moves from place to place?
2. This article was written in 2007. Since then, bootlegging has become big business. In this field of study we use Google Doc as a file sharing system. Can text also be "nude and bare text" in the forcible future with file sharing tools? Why can't text have "textural remixes" if sound can? What is "textural remixes" considered in the humanities?
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Summary
The Brides Stripped Bare, when you first encounter the title, is quite misleading. You tend to think of some artsy visual/concrete poetry type of presentation the "poetry" with nude images. That is not what this piece is about. This piece surrounds UbuWeb and gives a brief background of its origins and moves onto its most popular section, MP3 file sharing collective. The UbuWeb was created as an online archive for collection of out-of-print and hard to find concrete, avant-garde, and sound poetry. Over the years the collection grew so large and varied that they eventually dropped the prefix of poetry from their from their name because they didn't want limitations.
The sound section of the UbuWeb quickly became its most popular section. With the advent of MP3s and the ability to share those types of files via the web, people who were interested in the avant-garde sound movement were granted to easier access to the materials. UbuWeb also allows the user to download the sounds onto their computers and use them as 'source material' to manipulate, combine, and remix to create new compositions - Goldsmith termed the process of combining different sound pieces bootlegging or smushing. The way that the sound files are distributed is given the term nude media by the author. He writes:
What I mean by this is that once, say, an MP3 file is downloaded from thecontext of a site such as UbuWeb, it’s free or naked, stripped bare of thenormative external signifiers that tend to give as much meaning to an artworkas the contents of the artwork itself. Unadorned with branding or scholarlyliner notes, emanating from no authoritative source, these objectsare nude, not clothed.
When the sound files are uploaded and then downloaded on this peer-to-peer file sharing system they are, in essence, naked because they no longer hold any allegiance of branding or the authority of its original intent.
Commentary
Goldsmith "The Bride Stripped Bare: Nude Media and the Dematerialization of Tony Curtis" introduces a number of new concepts and terms. From the onset of Netscape , Goldsmith in essence was hooked; "The first image I saw appear on the screen was a slowly unfurling interlaced gif"(2). Thus, explaining the birth of UbuWeb. The inception of UbuWeb played on the role of the computer when incorporating sound and concrete poetry in the Web environment.
Goldsmith says:
The interface design of UbuWeb is intentionally modeled toemphasized these same flat, cool, and minimal qualities. Illusionisticdepth-of-space, three-dimensional modeling, and decoration of any sortis avoided. UbuWeb's form is meant to fit its function......UbuWeb isbecoming a clearinghouse for the avant-garde, something the Web sorely needs(3).
The article ultimately returns to a realization that in this process UbuWeb is simply another source (like many today) that possibly has little to no distinction from others like it. In a defeated conclusion the author makes mention that the infinity of the web may continue to strip bare the history of sound.
Questions
1. "Nude media" is a term Goldsmith introduces meaning "downloading strips bare" certain historical elements of the soundtrack the more it is exchanged. With the popularity of the Web how can historical properties remain with the work as it moves from place to place?
2. This article was written in 2007. Since then, bootlegging has become big business. In this field of study we use Google Doc as a file sharing system. Can text also be "nude and bare text" in the forcible future with file sharing tools? Why can't text have "textural remixes" if sound can? What is "textural remixes" considered in the humanities?